mechanism
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To prevent prices of perpetual futures from diverging too dramatically from the spot price of the underlying asset, perpetual futures traded on exchanges like Hyperliquid rely on a mechanism called funding rates.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Although the biological mechanism remains unclear, Gloyn believes the answer is likely complex and influenced by multiple factors.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
But the investment in SpaceX itself is through a legal structure that holds the actual shares, a complicated mechanism that puts some investors off.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
If you look at a clock or a watch from the outside you can tell that there is a mechanism which turns the hands.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing mechanism
Power Suffix: -ism
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The Suffix -ism, Part 1
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